Date Cake Recipes

Baking cakes has always been the pride and pleasure of wives and mothers, and why not? What more can be asked for if they love to have the cake and make you eat it! Each one in the family is lured into the kitchen as the irresistible aroma of the cake begins to emanate from the oven. You can feel yourself letting your guard down as you wait impatiently to dig into that delectable piece of cake. If delightful dates have found their way into your cake, rest assured, they will not only render the cake scrumptious, but will also impart many health benefits to you that you may be completely oblivious of. Dates are rich in nutrients including vitamins and minerals. They are considered to be one of the best energy boosting snacks and good sources of dietary fibers and potassium. In addition, dates have a low calorie count, so you can relish your date cakes to the hilt sans the concomitant guilt. Mentioned below are two date cake recipes that you can sinfully indulge in. Preparing the cake may not exactly be a piece of cake, but it certainly is worth the time and effort.  

Easy Date Cake Recipes

Eggless Date Cake

Ingredients

• 20-22 Dates (seedless)
• 1 cup Hot Milk
• ¾ cup Sugar
• 1 ½ cup All Purpose Flour
• ½ cup Vegetable Oil or ½ cup Butter
• 1 ¼ tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tbsp Nuts (chopped)
• ¼ tsp Nutmeg (grated)
• 1 tbsp Raisins

• Heat the milk. Put the dates in a bowl and pour the hot milk over the dates. Keep aside till it cools.
• Put the soaked dates in a blender along with the milk they were soaked in and blend them till almost smooth.
• Add sugar and blend again. Pour the mixture in a mixing bowl.
• Add oil or butter and mix well. Ensure that the butter is at room temperature before you add it.
• Sieve together the all-purpose flour and baking soda.
• Add the flour, one table spoon at a time and mix slowly.
• Add the nuts, nutmeg powder and mix well. The mixture will now be thick.
• Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Grease a baking cake dish. Put the mixture in it and smoothen the top.
• Add additional chopped nuts and raisins on the top if you wish.
• Bake for 35-40 minutes.
• To test if the cake is done, insert a knife in the middle of the cake at 35 minutes. The cake is done if the knife comes out clean.
• Switch the oven off and leave the cake in the oven for an additional 5 minutes.
• Remove the cake pan from the oven and cool a little.
• Loosen the edges with a knife. Place a plate on the top and turn the pan upside down. Let it cool for some time.
• Cut in wedges and serve.

Date Cake Recipe With Egg

• 1 ½ cup All Purpose Flour
• ½ cup Milk
• 100 g Butter
• 1¼ cup Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 cup Dates (pitted and chopped)
• 1 cup Boiling Water
• ½ cup Walnuts (chopped)
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Baking Powder

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Add the dates, baking soda and baking powder to the boiling water.
• Allow it to cool. Sift the flour and beat the egg.
• Cream the butter and the sugar.
• Add the beaten egg to the butter and sugar mixture.
• Add the flour and dates to the butter, sugar and egg.
• Add milk and half of the walnuts.
• Bake in a 20 cm round tin for 60 minutes.
• Remove and let it cool on a cake cooling rack.
• Put the remaining walnuts on the top for decoration.